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Originally Posted by joeys mom  Sylvia, why haven't you taken her to the vet? She is in distress and needs expert help now. If she is dehydrated they can do an IV. She needs help, or she will die!!! Please Please, bundle her and sis up, I get my laundry basket line it with a warm blanket take their warm bedding this is a piece of carpet that is in a flannel pillow case with a soft towel safety pinned around it that has been over the heating pad and put it ontop of the blanket. I also heat a long sock with rice in it. and lay it along side under the carpet piece. Put the puppies on this with a very soft receiving blanket ontop of them. Just as I go out the door, I fold the other blanket over them until I get to the warmed car. Mom walks along with us. After I get in the car, Cabella gets to check her puppies out and she has room to get in with them if she wants to and she does. I would call the vets office and TELL them I am on my way, don't ask for an appointment, and if they won't see you find you a vet that will, at this point this is an emergency!!!Please I hope you will take my advise, If you go and nothing is wrong with her, let me know and I will help you out with the office visit. Sharon |
Oh, Sharon, thank you for the offer of help and I am sorry that I freaked you out. I have been in contact with my vet and the baby is barely dehydrated. Also, she is doing much better now. Earlier she wouldn't nurse from the bottle but now she is. I had forgotten about heating rice in a sock, I am going to add that to their bed.
I have had many tiny babies and from my experience there isn't much more the vet can do for my babies than I can. I can give subq injections and I am constantly on watch with them. That is one thing the vet can't do. They have a business to run and I just have one baby to save. My vet asks the same questions as I get here. So I am confident that this group is one of the BEST resources there is.
The only difference I can see is that they went to school for years and still can't help my babies more than I can. I don't blame them, the babies are so tiny that there is not much they could do without microsurgery type tools and to put that much effort into a baby only to have it die anyways is basically a waste of time and money. That sounds horrid but it's the truth and I would rather know that I have fought a war with God and He won, than to imagine my baby in an incubator with only the sounds of machines and people talking in the distance when she passes on (if she passes on).